Join On the Media for a look at the unique space between history and current events occupied by the 9/11 Memorial Museum. Producer Meara Sharma talks to Jake Barton about the ideology behind the varying degrees of visitor experience possible within the realm of the museum.

In their comprehensive overview, Wired highlights some of the difficulties and decisions associated with the design and execution of this monumental project. Be sure to check out the included video, “What Remains- 9/11 Museum”, which features commentary on the project from Jake.

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Back-End Developer

Local Projects is seeking an opinionated Python + Web developer with linux, devops and general sysops (preferably on AWS) experience. Ideal candidate must appreciate the value and aesthetics of modular applications and reusable code. Additionally, they are required to have at least basic web and JS development experience. Any experience in Clojure, Lua, and data-science/analytics would be a plus. We are searching for developers who care about both the output of their applications and the quality and reusability of their code.

Front-End Developer

We’re looking for technical artists to join our team. We make stuff with OpenFrameworks, Cinder, Flash (yup, you can sneer all you want), new JS libraries, Unity, iOS, Android, Arduino. You name a front-end Open Source toolset and we probably have some code in it, or will soon enough.

We work on some very exciting experiential implementations. Our focus on museums, non-profits and culturally impactful spaces provides us the opportunity to tell stories through technology in a creative, non-invasive way. Ultimately what we build is better interactions, while making the technology feel invisible. And like all magic, that comes with a lot of work, with the payoff of a very happy user (it’s that epic win you always wanted to get out of a kid that user your interface and is completely hypnotized).

If what drives you are artful creations, fulfilling and innovative solutions in environments with cultural impact, we want to talk to you (insert Uncle Sam image of your choice). You should minimally have a solid programming background, a love for Posix, be programming language agnostic, and be a perfectionist for the user experience. Ideally you’d have a solid background in a graphics frameworks (OpenFrameworks is our preference) and have built real-world solutions.

Media Producer / Project Manager

Local Projects is currently seeking an experienced Media Producer / Project Manager to help shape the future of museum and public spaces through strong detail management and positive client relationships. Candidate should be an omniscient individual who will be able to conceptualize, develop and produce highly innovative pieces and can track and facilitate next steps on complex projects from conception through installation.
Our projects will demand a very special individual, who can both drive and shadow the creative process while producing easy to comprehend status reports, presentations and updates for clients and collaborators.
Candidate must have a strong technical understanding of both the front and back end development process for multiple mediums including shoot coordination and logistics, film production, post-production, web, mobile web and kiosk development and any new media formats that are thrown at you. We’re looking for someone with 5-7 years of relevant experience to help coordinate projects from concept through design, prototyping and installation. Candidate should have a strong foundation in traditional design documentation as well as a high comfort level developing and maintaining budgets, production schedules and other associated project administration standards.
Candidate must be able to lead as well as collaborate with a strong design team and complex/intelligent clientele.
The Media Producer / Project Manager will work under Local Projects’ Studio Director and Principal.

Interaction Designer

Local Projects is seeking an Interaction Designer (generalist) with the know-how to incorporate user-centered design principles across a range of projects, from websites to mobile applications to large-scale touch screen interactions. This role will have a core position in shaping a project’s creative trajectory from early concept to implementation.

Ideal candidate should possess an empirical, hands-on knowledge of how technology systems are built, and use this knowledge to design engagements that can be executed well while remain structurally intact. Additionally, the candidate should be able to document and present this knowledge in a manner that both clients and developers can understand, and be comfortable collaborating within a multidisciplinary team.

- capable of producing low-to-high-fidelity prototypes, both for demonstrating fulfillment of stakeholder requirements and usability testing;

- cognizant of at least one authoring environment including Processing, HTML/CSS, Javascript, and/or Open Frameworks;

- able to communicate and promote user-centered design principles within multidisciplinary teams and to clients;

- exhibit visual acuity that will be used in collaboration with in-house graphic designers to shape the overall look and feel.

Candidates with a knowledge of designing within a variety of different hardware configurations that utilize sensors and other non-traditional inputs, and multi-device output in a working environment is a plus.

Creative Technologist

Local Projects is currently seeking a Creative Technologist to help shape the future of museum, public and online spaces. Applicants should be experienced programmers who hate to make users think; who strive to make user-experiences responsive, fluid, transparent, and in some cases truly breathtaking.

The ideal candidate will have some combination of physical computing (android, rasbpi, other programmable hardware), interactive programming, an understanding and some experience with responsive web development (including using standard javascript frameworks), and a very strong understanding of back-end development including NoSQL, web-server setup (nginx, apache), and MVC programming with a python-based framework (Flask, Django, etc.).

At a minimum you must be interested in infrastructure programming, have no problem with web development as one aspect of your job, and a very strong interest and aptitude for physical computing programming, specifically (but not limited to) arduino and rasberry pi.

Senior Graphic Designer

Local Projects is currently seeking a Senior Graphic Designer with strong 2D design and production skills as well as proficiency in Interaction Design to help shape the future of museum, public and online spaces. Candidates should have 2-4 years experience designing for web, kiosk and mobile. Experience with Motion Graphics and time based works is considered a plus. Candidate should be able to produce production ready files while also engaging in and guiding early concept and ideation phases required for the realization of finished works.

The Designer will work under Local Projects’ Creative Directors and Principal on a variety of projects and tasks. Our past work includes projects for the National September 11 Memorial Museum, SFMOMA, the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, as well as a variety of Civic and Cultural sector clients. These projects will demand a very special individual who can work autonomously but also takes direction well and who can combine passion with craft to create something extraordinary.